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Cam

Cam

(kăm)
,
Noun.
[Dan.
kam
comb, ridge; or cf. W., Gael., and Ir.,
cam
bent. See 1st
Comb
.]
1.
(Med.)
(a)
A turning or sliding piece which, by the shape of its periphery or face, or a groove in its surface, imparts variable or intermittent motion to, or receives such motion from, a rod, lever, or block brought into sliding or rolling contact with it.
(b)
A curved wedge, movable about an axis, used for forcing or clamping two pieces together.
(c)
A projecting part of a wheel or other moving piece so shaped as to give alternate or variable motion to another piece against which it acts.
☞
Cams
are much used in machinery involving complicated, and irregular movements, as in the sewing machine, pin machine, etc.
2.
A ridge or mound of earth.
[Prov. Eng.]
Wright.
Cam wheel
(Mach.)
,
a wheel with one or more projections (cams) or depressions upon its periphery or upon its face; one which is set or shaped eccentrically, so that its revolutions impart a varied, reciprocating, or intermittent motion.

Cam

,
Adj.
[See
Kam
.]
Crooked.
[Obs.]

Definition 2024

Cam

Cam

See also: cam, cám, çam, cằm, and CAM

English

Proper noun

Cam

  1. A diminutive of the male given name Cameron.
  2. A river of eastern England, which passes Cambridge.

Spanish

Proper noun

Cam m

  1. Ham (son of Noah)

cam

cam

See also: Appendix:Variations of "cam"

English

Noun

cam ‎(plural cams)

  1. A turning or sliding piece which imparts motion to a rod, lever or block brought into sliding or rolling contact with it.
  2. A curved wedge, movable about an axis, used for forcing or clamping two pieces together.
  3. (Britain, dialect) A ridge or mound of earth.
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Wright to this entry?)
  4. (rock climbing) A camming device, a spring-loaded device for effecting a temporary belay in a rock crevice.
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Etymology 2

Clipping of camera, from the first part of Latin camera obscura ‎(“dark chamber”), itself from Ancient Greek καμάρα ‎(kamára, “vaulted chamber”), from Proto-Indo-European *kam- ‎(“to arch”)

Noun

cam ‎(plural cams)

  1. (informal) camera
Derived terms
Translations

Verb

cam ‎(third-person singular simple present cams, present participle camming, simple past and past participle cammed)

  1. To go on webcam with someone

Etymology 3

Adverb

cam ‎(comparative more cam, superlative most cam)

  1. Alternative form of kam

Anagrams

Acholi

Noun

cam

  1. food

French

Etymology

From English cam, a shortening of camera.

Noun

cam f ‎(plural cams)

  1. cam (device for filming)

Abbreviation

cam
  1. (military, nautical) contre-amiral (rear admiral (RAdm))

Alternative forms

  • (contre-amiral): CAm

Anagrams

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish camm, from Proto-Celtic *kambos.

Pronunciation

  • (Munster) IPA(key): /kaumˠ/
  • (Galway) IPA(key): /kɑːmˠ/
  • (Mayo, Ulster) IPA(key): /kamˠ/

Adjective

cam ‎(genitive singular masculine caim, genitive singular feminine caime, plural cama, comparative caime)

  1. crooked

Declension

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
cam cham gcam
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Kurdish

Noun

cam f

  1. glass (substance)


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Lojban

Rafsi

cam

  1. rafsi of carmi.

Manx

Etymology

From Old Irish camm, from Proto-Celtic *kambos.

Adjective

cam ‎(plural cammey)

  1. crooked
  2. deformed
  3. deceitful
  4. (of wood) knotty

Verb

cam ‎(verbal noun cammey, past participle cammit)

  1. bow, distort, hook (as finger), crank (of object)

Mutation

Manx mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
cam cham gam
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Romanian

Etymology

From Latin quam, or more likely from camai, from Latin quam magis.

Adverb

cam

  1. approximately, a little
  2. rather
    Lacul ăsta e cam murdar.‎
    This lake is rather dirty.

Related terms

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Old Irish camm, from Proto-Celtic *kambos.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kaːm/, /kʰaum/

Adjective

cam

  1. crooked, askew

Declension

First declension; forms of the positive degree:

Case Masculine singular Feminine singular Plural
Nominative cam cham cama
Vocative chaim chaim cama
Genitive chaim chaim/caime cam
Dative cham chaim cama

Comparative/superlative: caime

Turkish

Etymology

From Persian جام ‎(jâm).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /dʒam/

Noun

cam ‎(definite accusative }}}, plural }}})

  1. glass

Vietnamese

Etymology

Sino-Vietnamese word from 柑 (“orange”)

Pronunciation

Noun

cam

  1. ([quả / trái] cam) The fruit orange

Derived terms

  • cam sành - a Vietnamese citrus fruit similar to an orange
  • cây cam - orange tree

Adjective

cam

  1. made of oranges
  2. ([màu] cam) of the colour orange

Derived terms

  • nước cam - orange juice (literally: "orange water")
  • sách màu cam - orange book (literally: "orange-coloured book")

Etymology

A cam

Recorded since the 16th century, from Dutch kam ‎(“cog of a wheel; originally, comb”) (cognate with English comb, and preserved in modern Dutch compounds such as kamrad, kamwiel ‎(“cog wheel”))

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [kæm]
  • Rhymes: -æm

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